[ale] CentOS keeps rebooting

[Greg Clifton]

Chuck,

If your capacitors are swollen, probably no testing will work. If the noise
on the bus isn't squelched by the capacitors, memtest may fail the RAM,
when the real problem is either your power supply or the capacitors
failed/failing. A power supply going bad could have cased the caps to blow
or this may be one of Dell's infamous "bad" motherboards, either way the
box is probably effectively dead.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> If that's the case you maybe able to go with a PCI(e) card to SATA or PATA
> IDE. Then just disable in BIOS the onboard controller. If you don't have
> one I may have one laying around that you're welcome to have.
>
> Scott C
>
> On 11/14/2013 12:47 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
>
>> I think it the on board hard drive controller, it boots up and stays
>> up on the dvd.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I will try finnix, I did try to do a default bios load, and now it
>>> worse. Crap. Hopefully finnix will give me some clues.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If not, it is on the Finnix live cd.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: leam hall [mailto:leamhall at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:27 AM Central Standard Time
>>>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS keeps rebooting
>>>>
>>>> Don't some of the install disks come with memtest? That might give you a
>>>> CPU/memory test.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an old dell GX620 Small factor  that was giving for
>>>>> development, but I think it dying, not sure how to test it to see what
>>>>> needs to be fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is currently my spacewalk server that I test the latest and
>>>>> greatest from RHEL/Fedora, what it is doing is it boots up all way,
>>>>> then a sec later it reboot on it own.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to rebuild it, but it not install on the hard drive, it fact
>>>>> it reboots and I am left with grub. I have notice that some of
>>>>> capacitors look like they are about to open up. That not suppose to
>>>>> happen correct, they should stayed close.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something that I can run to see the over all health of my
>>>>> poor box. I hope it not dying as I living on donate hardware and this
>>>>> would be a great lose to me as it all my openSUSE test box as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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